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Balmoral - Queen Victoria's Highland Home (Paperback)
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Balmoral - Queen Victoria's Highland Home (Paperback)
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Loot Price R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
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First published in 1981, this is Ronald Clark's engagingly readable
account of Queen Victoria's relationship with "Our dear Balmoral"
and the life that went on there. The biography of Balmoral begins
with the first visit to Scotland of the young Queen Victoria and
her husband Prince Albert in 1842. Five years later, while bad
weather envelops the Royal party in western Scotland, the son of
the Queen's physician, convalescing in Old Balmoral, reports
blazing sunshine from Upper Deeside. The death of his host shortly
afterwards opens the way for the Royal acquisition of the Balmoral
estate and the building of the new Castle in 1853-55. In the period
up to Albert's death in 1861 Balmoral becomes the setting for many
of the Royal couple's happiest moments as they revel in the
beauties of the scenery, relish the picturesque pageantry of
Highland life, enjoy their incognito expeditions into the
surrounding country, and - in Albert's case - discover a passionate
enthusiasm for deer-stalking. After the Prince Consort's death
Balmoral becomes a mausoleum of memories, but also a source of
strength enabling the Queen to survive her devastating loss. About
the time of the Golden Jubilee of 1887 there is an Indian summer,
with members of the Queen's extensive family rallying round and
dances and entertainments displacing some of the black-crepe gloom.
In 1896 there is the colorful visit of the Tsar, with his wife and
daughter. The closing section links Victorian Balmoral with the
life of the Castle today.
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